Hollywood studio heads have balked at Friday's handshake agreement between Canadian actors and producers to end the ACTRA strike, leaving CFTPA and ACTRA representatives to find a face-saving formula on new media residuals for the major studios so a new IPA deal can be finalized this week.
Hollywood studio CEOs flinching over payments for Internet rights on Friday caused widespread frustration among the Canadian bargainers.
For months, the industry has questioned why humble Canada had to hammer out a deal on Internet compensation before Hollywood took a crack at it.
For weeks, ACTRA urged that the issue should be side-barred to a joint committee for up to a year, likely until the SAG talks began. But the producers insisted they needed certainty, and so pushed for a deal on new media residuals.
And when they had one, the studios balked.
Words just fail.
With that I bid adieu to Canadian TV for a week. Seriously. Cold Turkey. I'm busy working a script, it's all too depressing and frustrating, and my teeth are starting to hurt from the grinding. Until at least next Monday, only happy news about Canuck TV, if even that. Daddy's getting the monkey off his back, at least for a while.
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Damn. This is what I was worried about. Exactly this.
It is always easier to be working on 2 scripts at once. Really, it is. You have an escape hatch from the paralysis that may be crippling the one.
Of course. The studio wants to set a precedent. Just not one they don't like.
Dude, I feel your pain. My teeth are gritty little nubs.
Okay, Dmc, I know that you will be completely immersed in your script. But just in case you aren't, or any readers out there are desperately searching for new sources of distraction while you're out -- check out the review of the final O.C. episodes on salon.com.
devastating.
devastating that he spoiled it for you? or devastating because you expected better from the o.c.?
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